Sci Fi Essay #3: Place and Space- Scavengers as a Sensory Experience Scavengers is a short animation, by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, that follows a pair of human explorers as they journey through an unknown planet (Vesta) full of unusual creatures. The title Scavengers- someone who feeds from the discards of something else- seems [...]
In “The Beast Below,” episode 2 of the 5th series of the new era of the long running British science fiction show Doctor Who, the Doctor and his new companion Amy Pond travel to the future and find themselves on board a starship that contains all of the English population, a moving diaspora necessitated by [...]
Cyberpunk 2077: Blending ARPG and FPS for Creating an Incredible Cyberpunk World Xinyu Luo Fig. 1 Your Own Cyberpunk Journey (https://www.cyberpunk.net/us/en/) Cyberpunk 2077 is a video game developed and published by the Polish game company CD Projekt. Long before its official release date, December 10, 2020, countless video players have crazily high expectations for eight [...]
Many works of science fiction repeatedly portray a "post-human" world where the concepts of "human" and "humanity" have undergone a radical transformation, so that "what is human" needs to be redefined. However, posthumanism is also more than a redefinition of the human; it is an "anti-anthropocentric" proposition that emphasizes non-human agents in the world. Writers, [...]
XCOM: UFO Defense, Mythos Games, MicroProse, 1994 XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis Games, 2K Games, 2012 XCOM 2, Firaxis Games, 2K Games, 2016 Reboot of the original series that began with the 1994 game for DOS and Amiga X-COM: UFO Defense, XCOM and XCOM 2 are two very similar yet radically different games. Despite a few [...]
One short film that has always stuck out to me is "This Time Away," which is directed by Magali Barbe, and turned out to be the best short film of the 2019 Manhattan Short film finalist. Unlike some sci-fi, this short film has a way of generating hope, and ultimately connection through its scenes, and [...]
In the 2040s Japan, after the Third and Fourth World War, human society is very different from before, high-tech has given birth to a new lifestyle, as machines have not only taken over human flesh, making prosthetic bodies replacing limbs the norm, but also human consciousness, turning brains from organic parts into electronic brains, which [...]
Psycho-Pass is a Japanese anime which is set in the future depicting a dystopian Japan governed by an advanced pre-crime supercomputer. Citizens’ mental state and personality can be measured in numbers for which the record of their emotion, desire, social deviation and mental inclination is surveillanced by the artificial intelligent system. As both a [...]
When we think SF, we think future, technology, speed, luxury––a pre-mediated look on SF from a western, Euro-centric perspective that has been imposed upon us since a long time. But we fail to think about how science-fiction plays part in places rampant with discriminatory practices, hierarchies, and traditions that have survived for centuries, and exist [...]
As I think about media and science fiction, I find myself asking some basic questions. If science fiction is about the future, is there a genre requirement about how far ahead an author must look in order to be included in the canon? I took a trip back in time and explored my long history [...]
